Gnawing
['nɔː(r)ɪŋ] or ['nɔɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gnaw
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Examples
- Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But he avoided her look, she sank her head in torment and shame, the gnawing at her heart going on. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here was a little piece of miserable, gnawing confirmation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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